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Forest And Bird - Latest News [Page 34]

Game council undermines conservation

Wednesday, 6 April 2011, 12:45 pm | Forest And Bird

The government’s announcement today that a statutory Game Animal Council will be established confirms Forest & Bird’s fears that conservation of our forests and native wildlife will be undermined. The management on public conservation land of ... More >>

Dairy industry keeps on polluting

Friday, 18 March 2011, 1:37 pm | Forest And Bird

The latest snapshot of the Dairying and Clean Streams Accord highlights the continuing failure of the dairy industry to meet the majority of targets set for 2007, Forest & Bird said today. “We are eight years into the accord and in the 2009/10 snapshot, ... More >>

Forest & Bird calls for halt to Mackenzie tenure review

Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 1:29 pm | Forest And Bird

Nature conservation group Forest & Bird is concerned that high country tenure review for two properties in the Mackenzie Country will scupper collaborative work in the region that has just started. Two high country pastoral leases are currently proposed ... More >>

New Zealanders urged to support wild Mokihinui

Wednesday, 2 February 2011, 2:05 pm | Forest And Bird

Forest & Bird today launched a campaign to give New Zealanders the chance to urge Meridian Energy to withdraw its proposal to build an 85-metre-high dam on the pristine Mokihinui River on the West Coast. More >>

Coastline up for grabs in aquaculture legislation

Wednesday, 19 January 2011, 12:36 pm | Forest And Bird

Our wilderness coastline is under attack from the government’s plans to speed up the development of marine farms, Forest & Bird said today. People concerned about protecting our marine environment and coastal views have only until Friday, February ... More >>

Forest & Bird disgusted by fur seal clubbing

Monday, 6 December 2010, 3:07 pm | Forest And Bird

Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird is disgusted and disappointed by today’s news that 23 fur seals have been found clubbed to death at the popular tourist viewing spot at Ohau Point near Kaikoura. More >>

Coastal marathon for marine sustainability

Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 1:19 pm | Forest And Bird

A deepening anxiety about the decline of our coastlines and fisheries and a desire to make a difference is driving 26-year-old Alex Asher on a 2,400 kilometre journey around the North Island’s east coast. More >>

Mackenzie meeting seeks new way forwards

Thursday, 25 November 2010, 2:16 pm | Forest And Bird

A symposium starting tomorrow on the future of the Mackenzie Country offers the chance to kickstart efforts to find less confrontational ways of managing one of our iconic landscapes. More >>

Kokako nesting in Waitakeres after 80 year gap

Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 3:00 pm | Forest And Bird

Threatened North Island kokako have been discovered nesting in Auckland’s Waitakere Ranges for the first time in 80 years. More >>

Eradicate wild kiwifruit vines

Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 10:50 am | Forest And Bird

Forest & Bird today recommended the eradication of wild kiwifruit vines from the Bay of Plenty region. The call comes as the number of kiwifruit orchards confirmed to be infected with the PSA ( Pseudomonas syringae pathovar actinidiae) vine disease ... More >>

Labour weekend spotlight on saving the Mokihinui

Thursday, 21 October 2010, 11:28 am | Forest And Bird

Forest & Bird is joining with Whitewater NZ over Labour weekend to highlight the threat to the pristine beauty and endangered wildlife of the Mokihinui River from Meridian Energy’s planned hydro dam.   State-owned Meridian was granted resource ... More >>

Forest & Bird’s new Ruapehu lodge opened

Wednesday, 20 October 2010, 1:31 pm | Forest And Bird

Forest & Bird’s new Ruapehu lodge was officially opened today by the Governor-General, Sir Anand Satyanand, and Paramount Chief of Ngati Tuwharetoa, Sir Tumu Te Heuheu. More >>

Kakariki scoops Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year

Thursday, 14 October 2010, 11:12 am | Forest And Bird

New Zealand’s bright green parrot – the kakariki – has won this year’s Forest & Bird poll for Bird of the Year. More >>

Bladder kelp quota should be zero

Thursday, 23 September 2010, 4:56 pm | Forest And Bird

Forest & Bird believes Fisheries Minister Phil Heatley is endangering coastal marine ecosystems by announcing today commercial harvesting quotas for bladder kelp. More >>

Forest & Bird welcomes water consensus

Wednesday, 22 September 2010, 1:53 pm | Forest And Bird

Forest & Bird welcomes the report of the Land and Water Forum (LWF) released today. More >>

Commissioner right: conservation should come first

Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 12:54 pm | Forest And Bird

Forest & Bird welcomes the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s report about mining on conservation land as a reasoned and rational way of ensuring mining does not compromise conservation. More >>

Forest & Bird disappointed at Nevis River appeal

Thursday, 16 September 2010, 9:30 am | Forest And Bird

Forest & Bird is disappointed that Pioneer Generation is appealing the decision by a special tribunal to forbid dams on the Nevis River in Central Otago. More >>

Less talk, Vote Morepork

Wednesday, 15 September 2010, 4:54 pm | Forest And Bird

If you are still asking yourself who to vote for in Forest and Bird Bird of the Year poll, stop asking ‘Who? Who?’, vote Ruru. More >>

Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year poll opens

Monday, 13 September 2010, 10:37 am | Forest And Bird

Musician Don McGlashan and filmmaker Taika Waititi will be trumpeting the virtues of their favourite bird in Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year poll which opens today (September 13th). More >>

Forest & Bird join artists to save the Mackenzie

Friday, 20 August 2010, 3:17 pm | Forest And Bird

Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird and a group of prominent New Zealand artists came together today to highlight the growing development threats to the Mackenzie Country, one of the jewels in the crown of our natural heritage. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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